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undergroundrailroad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 06:14 PM
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BIG or small, old or NEW...what are your memories of Vernors?

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mouse7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 06:16 PM
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1. STILL my favorite soft drink
Hell to find here on the West Coast though.
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 06:21 PM
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2. Can't find it in Wisconsin
either..I sure miss it, and it's great for settling an upset stomach.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 02:53 PM
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15. Safeway carried it in the San Jose area
That's where I bought it between 1997 and 2003.
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Shadder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 12:06 PM
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18. I had to fill the car up with it
On trips back to Detroit when we lived in Ct.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 06:21 PM
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3. Great ginger ale
but I can't drink it now-only stuff sweetened with Splenda.
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undergroundrailroad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 06:31 PM
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4. I love Vernors but I can't find it in New York. My mother would warm
it as an RX for anything that hurt. Fever, tummy, flu, etc.

UGRR :-)
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Shadder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 12:08 PM
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19. Try it hot
Best thing in the world for a sore throat.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 06:36 PM
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5. Great stuff, I loved it growing up in Canada....
Edited on Tue May-18-04 06:36 PM by whistle
...It was a real treat going to the Vernor's plant in Detroit and getting all you could drink. I raised my kids to appreciate Vernor's Ginger Ale in Florida as well. Now my grandkids are getting an appreciation for it. I love Vernor's Floats!
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undergroundrailroad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 06:39 PM
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6. How well I remember the plant on Woodward Ave and the tour.
Vernor's Floats, yum!

UGRR :hi:
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politicat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 06:42 PM
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7. hard to find here, but yum.....
wish they'd figure out a low sugar one that was not nutrasweet or sacharrin - they both have chemical flavors that overwhelm the ginger ale.

Spenda would probably work.

Pcat
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enough Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 06:46 PM
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8. My Polish grandmother in Hamtramck
always got a big supply of Vernors in the house when we came visiting from rural Pennsylvania. This was even before the PA Turnpike was completed, and the drive took FOREVER on back roads through a thousand small towns it seemed.

That first bottle of Vernors was the END of the ROAD! Never had it anywhere else but Detroit.
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undergroundrailroad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 07:04 PM
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10. Kielbasas and Vernors on ice, heaven!
To this very day, there is not a road as longggggggggg as the PA Turnpike and yes, I too traveled that road before the Turnpike was completed. I was going round and round mountains, twisting and turning. I vowed I would never take that ride again!

UGRR :hi:
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 06:46 PM
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20. fresh kielbasas...
not smoked, love it with kiska too!
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 07:01 PM
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9. The high point of visiting Gramma in Detroit
It was easy to find in western Michigan where I grew up, but when my folks moved us to Los Angeles I never saw it again.

Gee how I miss those lazy afternoons on the front porch of Gramma's house sipping a fresh cold Vernors. That was 50 years ago and I don't recall much else about Detroit except that her street name was either Harper or Baldwin or Pressler. For some reason all three of those names stick in my mind.
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undergroundrailroad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 07:07 PM
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11. Was it near the auto plant?
Probably Harper.

Yes, I have those same memories. Sitting on the front porch in the swing sipping a fresh cold Vernors.

UGRR :hi:
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 07:09 PM
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12. Yeah, pretty close
to an auto plant. Maybe a mile or two away as I recall. The more I think about the more I think it might have been Presler. But I haven't been back to Michigan since 1959. I'm sure Detroit and my native Grand Rapids have changed beyond all recognition.
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5thGenDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:19 AM
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13. Going to the Detroit Zoo as a kid
And discovering that the bees near the concession stands liked Vernor's every bit as much as I did. They had no intention of stinging you -- they just wanted some of that ginger ale.
John
It is now 30 days, 23 hours and 42 minutes to FUNDAY. A few of you fellow Michiganians could bump that thread of mine here in the Michigan forum -- especially if you're planning on attending (the invites are in and I'm going to need your address to send you one).
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undergroundrailroad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 07:32 PM
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14. LOL, how true! It was so sweet and had zing, or do I mean sting??
I'm going over to the FUNDAY thread.

UGRR :hi:
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bain_sidhe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 10:24 PM
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16. Vernors floats. Absolutely. The. Best. Treat.
I had to be very, VERY, VERY good to get one. But boy, was it worth it!

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Sigh. BRB, gotta go get some Vernors! (Hey, I've been good. Really!)
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Shadder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 12:05 PM
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17. Ah, A Boston Cooler.
Can't beat it.
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shugah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 09:18 AM
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21. i was just gonna ask
i was reading this thread and wondering if anyone else did boston coolers!

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ben_thayer Donating Member (344 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 07:51 PM
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22. Now ya did it...
I haven't had a Vernors float in years, and just thinking about it has me drooling all over my keyboard. YYYUUUUMMMMMMM

:toast:
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Mr_Tom_Paine Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:48 AM
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23. Old Vernors Factory
When I was in college during the 1980's I often had reason to walk from the Detroit Public Library to the Wayne State Library. This journey took me past an old Vernors factory on Woodward. By this time it was nothing but a empty lot with only the broken up sign by the road still standing. I always enjoyed the drink but really have no reason to be sentimental about it. At the time though I remember thinking it sad that something that one more little piece of Detroit's identity stripped away.
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1gobluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 07:54 AM
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24. Welcome to DU! n/t
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stavka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 11:56 AM
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25. Still think it tastes like scotch and soda
...which in the right circumstances, isn't bad
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